Long-term strategy for management of Savannah River Plant defense high-level nuclear wastes
- Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) nearing completion at the Savannah River Plant (SRP) is the lead installation in the US Department of Energy program for ending interim storage and achieving permanent disposal of large quantities of defense high-level nuclear wastes in the United States. At projected processing rates, the DWPF will convert the existing SRP inventory of aqueous high-level wastes to solid glass form in steel canisters in about 20 years, with process adjustments required in a terminal campaign to handle residual waste components. Following completion of the existing inventory workoff, significantly modified facilities and procedures will be needed to accommodate the down-sized waste output of a single reactor (NPR) operation. The SRP program at this time, in contrast to the other defense waste as well as commercial waste programs, will be dominated by requirements of a small-scale technology, suitable for processing low volumes of wastes as-generated in relatively high-activity form. 19 refs., 3 figs.
- Research Organization:
- Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Plant
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/DP
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-76SR00001
- OSTI ID:
- 5746107
- Report Number(s):
- DP-MS-88-148; CONF-891006-3; ON: DE89010471
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Joint international waste management conference, Kyoto (Japan), 23-28 Oct 1989
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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